Definitions for syncopation

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syncopation syn·co·pa·tion

Spelling: [sing-kuh-pey-shuh n, sin-]

IPA: /ˌsɪŋ kəˈpeɪ ʃən, ˌsɪn-/

Syncopation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 774 anagrams from letters in syncopation (acinnoopsty).

Definitions for syncopation

noun

1. Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
2. something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated.
3. Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. Prosody. the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies.
4. Grammar. syncope.

Origin of syncopation

1525-35; Medieval Latin syncopātiōn- (stem of syncopātiō), equivalent to Late Latin syncopāt(us) (see syncopate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for syncopation

Formally its distinctive characteristic is the familiar one—syncopation.

Certainly she "leaves out" with the boldest of them: here is syncopation if you like it.

One may do worse than compare it with the Syrian syncopation of and ' in Bion's Adonis.

The result is an effect of syncopation which is peculiarly forceful.

It is the very kernel of the art of Paul Cézanne; rhythmic irregularity, syncopation, asymmetry.

His heart beat with syncopation when he rose at the first note of music.

In other words, the character of language rhythm is determined by the relative proportion of coincidence and syncopation.

Are you in favour of the establishment of a Ministry for the Control of syncopation?

And over all the American jazz music boomed and whanged its syncopation.

In verse also syncopation frequently occurs, though it is seldom recognized except as an 'irregularity.'